press coverage

We've gotten a bit of press coverage since we shipped Toolbar 2.0:

• As of 6pm today the Google Toolbar #1 on Daypop Top 40.
  
• ABCNews.com and the Boston Globe, among many other media outlets, ran an AP wire article about the toolbar (see below).
  
• The toolbar was even featured in the New York Times (they ran a CNET article about the toolbar)
  
• We've also gotten some coverage in Germany and in Australia.
  

From the AP article:

"Online search engine Google introduced several new gadgets in its popular toolbar for Web browsers, hoping to build even greater brand loyalty amid heightened competition.

The new software out Thursday for the toolbar includes a feature that automatically blocks pop-up ads, as well a program that automatically fills out Internet forms seeking a customer's name and address.

The function that fills in forms offers an option to store credit card numbers too, but the information is encrypted on the hard drive of a user's computer instead of Google's computers, for security and privacy reasons.

The toolbar also enables users to transfer online content to Internet journals known as Weblogs, or "blogs," by pressing a button.

Google emphasized that the new toolbar is still being tested and could be revised later.

The new features represent Google's most ambitious upgrade of its toolbar since the Mountain View, Calif.-based company offered the software in December 2000. The toolbar works only on Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, the world's dominant Web browser."